I'm a co-leader and owner of a well-established faction, but can't upgrade faction tree?!
A co-leader is just as important as the leader and in the absence of the leader (whatever it might be - temporary real life issues etc.) a co-leader should be able to fully manage the faction as he had been trusted to be in the position to run the faction by the leader.
If you can't trust your co-leader - don't have one, simple as that. Might as well remove the option to appoint a co-leader...
In most established old factions the leader is not the owner.
Why put all of the workload on the leader's shoulders when the co-leader is trusted to run the faction when the leader is away? In the old system both leaders could upgrade specials, so why not in this one?
Many people asked, so I have to respond that I was in fed jail for "abetting". The abetting rule concerns knowingly doing something. I did not know about cheating or multis. I did not gain or intend to gain anything financially. I get contacted by a lot of newbies daily, especially when I paid for slutting. So I started offering 150m for a referral to get the Pyramid Scheme merit. TravieTime [4138139] said he referred his sister EmilyLov3sDaddy [4176436], hoping to earn the 150m. He used the wrong link, so I didn't get the merit, but still paid 150m.
Then, without asking, he referred 2 more people:
The staff said the burden is on me to check if it looks suspicious. I am not shy of reporting suspicious behaviour (as I have done in the past), but to me, there has to be something like similar login times, something they said etc., before I am comfortable reporting. The staff mentioned EmilyLuvsDaddy [4176330] in the report as a way for me to see their similar names, but I have never seen or heard of that player before, nor do I properly check the names of some random newbies. I started checking their progress in my referrals and noticed they had the same offline time, and before I could check more, the staff put me in fed. Also, about a month ago, I paid for bulk losses to some dicrod channel owner at 30m per 100 losses. Never checked any of the names or profiles attacking me, by this logic, I could be guilty of abetting.